Synology DiskStation DS412+

Full business set of features at an affordable price. Fours drive bays for multiple RAID configurations. DiskStation Manager 4.0 provides cloud-based remote access.

Cons
Ships diskless.

Bottom Line

Synology rolls out its latest Network Attached Storage device for small and medium-sized businesses. The NAS boasts a new design and the company's latest DiskStation Manager 4.0 software. Product not yet reviewed by PCMag editors.

Product not yet reviewed by PCMag editors. Synology's DiskStation DS412+ is the company's first four bay NAS to feature its brand new chassis design. The most significant change to the chassis is a new, removable front cover that protects the drive bays. Designed for small and medium-sized businesses, the DS412+ allows centralizing backups, protecting data, and sharing files across varying platforms. The DS412+ is priced at $649.99 and ships without disks.

Specs

Four drive bays support 3.5" or 2.5 " SATA (II) drives. Maximum internal capacity is 16TB achieved with 4x 4TB HDD. This capacity may vary depending on RAID configurations. Drives are hot-swappable and the device comes with Synology Hybrid RAID technology, an excellent way to build a RAID volume with data protection.

The DS412+ is Synology's first SMB NAS to include two USB 3.0 ports for additional storage or for adding printers. Dual Gigabit Ethernet ports support link aggregation or allow for connection failover. Additional features includes a USB 2.0 port, and an eSATA port.

Synology's NASes consistently prove to run cool and quiet during testing. This is because of the vendor's CPU passive cooling and system fan redundancy which is also included in the DS412+.
The processor is an Intel Atom Dual Core 2.13 GHz and the NAS has 1GB DDR memory. The vendor states Read speeds as 205.68 MBps and Writes at 182.66 MBps. These speeds were tested by the vendor with both Gigabit ports configured with link aggregation.

Samara Lynn has nearly twenty years experience in Information Technology; most recently as IT Director at a major New York City healthcare facility. She has a Bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College, several technology certifications, and...

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